Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-11-04
Tho great seo,OOO,O 900 suit against the

Tho great sa0,O00,0o0 suit against the
New York Pennsylvania a. Ohio railroad
company. has been settled by the payment
of small costs
The water famine that has prevailed
throughout the two western tiers OF Ohio
counties and the adjoining territory OF
Indiana is growing serious Cattle are
actually suffering and belo wing for drink.
Some wells are dry and in others the low
water is breeding typhoid fever and kin
dred diseases
McGarigle, the Chicago boodler, is
thought to be in Winnipeg.
Rear Admiral j. W A. Nicholson ire
tired died in New York on the 18th ult.
The brotherhood of 10 conceive engineers
will meet in Richmond Va, next year.
The state treasurer OF Indiana has paid
the semi-annual interest on the 5000, 600
state loan and other small state debt,
thus showing that tho state treasury is
not bankrupt.
rear-end collision OF freight trains oc-
Cured on the Illinois Central, near Dixon
the other day throwing the engine and II
cars from the track and seriously injuring
ono of the engineer.
The explosion OF a boiler in Holders fire
brick works at h,nera' Point Ohio, re-
suited in the death OF four men, and sori
Gus injury to five Others.
portion of the Californian press, in q
torrent OF abuse against Mexico threatens
to send 400, 900 militia 70 that country 10
exterminate Mexican "cannibals,' the
murderers of Lee Baldwin. The Mexican
government desires that this band shall
la l,4I titro
the Cal fornians.
The southern forestry congress closed It's
session in Huntsville, Ala, few days
ago. In a letter received by the conven-
ton from .ef Davi the latter suggests
that it would be bettsr To transfer the
control of public lands to the state in
which they Le that the forests may be
preserved.
j. +. mith, the express messenger who
recently killed two train robbers near II
Paso, Texas, has been paid $4,000 Ly order
o. Gov Ro.s as "a reward. NTH viii
probably get :! 0O) more from the express
company and $1,000 from the railroad
company
Chicago police Laws discovered plot to
blow up the Jail where the anarchists are
! confined. a man ami boy were seen Turk
ing around the all the other night. See
ing that they were observed, they started
TO run. The boy was caught, aud found
to have a carefully drawn plan OF the jail
on his person. The man escaped. Every
| precaution has been taken 10 ferret out
the matter.
Men excavdting on the Maysville & Big
! Sandy railway in Kentucky opposite
4 f,.1, l.
/ pot with eighty gold and twenty silver
coins. The collectioni worth about $500.
The gold coins have figure Of fi.h on
them and the word Bolivar. Both gold
and silver coins bear the date Of lo3O.
Troops have been ordered TO the Crow
! Indian Agency in Montana, to be In readi-
ness in case OF an outbreak
The town Of Cedarville. Ohio was des
! roye1 by fire the other day.
1t is rumored that the sentence Of Field
EN-, one Of the anarchists, viii be commit
ed TO imprisonment tor life.
| a statue OF Lief Erickson. the Icolandic
! discoverer, was unveiled in Boston the
/ other day.
John Snyder of MillSrove, Ind, the man
who walks because he can't help it, after
| an incessant tramp night and day for
! three years, IS dying.
Antonio Infantes proposed to make a
/ balloon excursion in st. Louis the other
/ day. The balloon was brought. lnfantes
/ seated himself, the air-ship started up
! ward quickly aud had attained a hight of
! 800 feet, when there was "A sudden collapse
and second later the areonant plunged
to the ground mangled corpse.
Jay Gould and family have gone TO
! Europe. 1t is reported that Gould has
been receiving numerous threatening let
ters from the anarchists and that his trip
abroad was underta en- at this time is TO
avoid personal danger to himself
An explosion Of gun powder occurred
in the 1T. Lawrence mine near Butte
Montana, the other day. Two men were
blown into such small pieces that their
remains were placed in a small box.
4 communication on tie anarchists case
to President Cleveland at Washington
was received at the hretheit office in New
York the other day from Holland. Ii is
from the social democratic federation of
Holland, and is 10 the effect that if the
anarchists are hanged the president will
be held personally responsible.
Secretary Whitney is seriously i'll.
Regarding the agitation in Dakota over
the conflicting claims OF squatters and
purchasers of railroad indemnity land,
Land Commissioner Sparks has written a
letter saying that an actual settler on re.
stored railroad lands who holds a deed
from the raj road company, can secure a
title from the government under thu pre-
emption or homestead avs provided he
| has not exhausted his privileges thereun.
| der.
Toledo postoflice officials claim to have
| discovered n systematic plot TO rob the
mails. Two remittances amounting to
s292 have lately been stolen.
WRECK CT THIS VERNON.